Acclaimed journalist and historian Tony Horwitz passed away on May 27, 2019, reportedly from a heart attack. Horwitz won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his best-selling book Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. He was a prolific writer whose many other works include One for the Road: A Hitchhiker’s Outback and Baghdad Without a Map. His latest book, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, was published shortly before his death.
Quotes: “Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.” | “You asked how I’d define prejudice. That’s it. Making assumptions about people you’ve never met.” — Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Sources: Wikipedia, The Times of Israel, Goodreads
Learn more about Tony Horwitz on Wikipedia. >>
Watch a retrospecitve on Tony Horwitz’s life and work on PBS New Hour. It includes an interview with the author and was aired the day after his death [7:49]. >>
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